| advocacy | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: protagonism |
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| advocate | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocator, exponent, proponent |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| advocator | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, exponent, proponent |
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| avocado | (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear |
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| (noun) tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits | Synonyms: avocado tree, Persea Americana |
| avocation | (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: by-line, hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity |
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| avocet | (noun) long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill | - |
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| convocation | (noun) the act of convoking | Synonyms: calling together |
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| (noun) a group gathered in response to a summons | - |
| equivocalness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: ambiguity |
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| equivocation | (noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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| (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: evasiveness, prevarication |
| (noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: evasion |
| equivocator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: hedger, tergiversator |
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| evocation | (noun) imaginative re-creation | - |
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| (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: elicitation, induction |
| (noun) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations | Synonyms: summoning |
| havoc | (noun) violent and needless disturbance | Synonyms: mayhem |
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| invocation | (noun) the act of appealing for help | - |
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| (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, conjury |
| (noun) a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service | Synonyms: supplication |
| (noun) an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil | - |
| irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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| novocaine | (noun) procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain) | Synonyms: Novocain, procaine hydrochloride |
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| provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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| provocation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, irritation |
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| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: incitement |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, incitement |
| revocation | (noun) the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done | - |
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| (noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: annulment |
| subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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| subvocalizer | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocaliser |
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| unequivocalness | (noun) clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity | Synonyms: unambiguity |
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| vocable | (noun) a word that is spoken aloud | Synonyms: spoken word |
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| vocabulary | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: lexicon, mental lexicon |
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| (noun) the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts) | - |
| (noun) a listing of the words used in some enterprise | - |
| vocal | (noun) music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment | Synonyms: vocal music |
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| (noun) a short musical composition with words | Synonyms: song |
| vocalisation | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| vocaliser | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocalist, vocalizer |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocalizer |
| vocalism | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| (noun) the system of vowels used in a particular language | Synonyms: vowel system |
| vocalist | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocaliser, vocalizer |
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| vocalization | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, voice, vox |
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| (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: utterance |
| vocalizer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocaliser, vocalist |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocaliser |
| vocalizing | (noun) the act of singing vocal music | Synonyms: singing |
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| vocation | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, career |
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| (noun) a body of people doing the same kind of work | Synonyms: occupational group |
| vocative | (noun) the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed | Synonyms: vocative case |
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| vociferation | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, shout, yell |
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| vociferator | (noun) a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest) | - |
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